This chapter brings together research on individual differences and cross-group interactions in promoting positive outgroup orientations among native majority youth. Recent research has begun to shift away from the traditional focus on prejudice reduction and gravitate towards understanding processes that prompt individuals to have positive feelings and intentions towards different ethnic and cultural outgroups. Extending this emerging line of research, this chapter reviews the findings on the role of individual differences in multicultural personality and cross-group friendships in generating positive outgroup attitudes (i.e., ethnic tolerance and allophilia) among young people. It concludes by discussing the practical implications of promoting young people's positive outgroup attitudes as well as fostering more positive and pro-social outgroup orientations towards representatives of different ethnic and cultural groups.